NEW ChBE FACULTY MEMBERS
We welcome the following new faculty members to our community. All our new colleagues come with excellent records and credentials, and the Department is proud to have them on board. We are looking forward to their contributions to the Department.
Dr. Yang Kun-Lin joined us on 30 June 2005 as Assistant Professor. Before pursing a PhD in the US, he attended the National Taiwan University and obtained his BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and specializes in chemical and biological sensing, biomolecules at interfaces and surface chemistry, molecular engineering and molecular modeling, surfactants, liquid crystals and self-assembly. Prior to joining NUS, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for a couple of years. His strong background in molecular engineering of surfaces and transport phenomena and research interests in surface interactions in nanopores and chemical sensors complement our current programs and will contribute to our nascent program in molecular engineering of surfaces and materials.
Dr. Lee Dong-Yup holds a joint appointment with our Department (Assistant Professor; 25%) and the Bioprocessing Technology Institute (Senior Researcher; 75%) since 1 August 2005. He obtained his BSc in Chemical Engineering from Yonsei University in 1998, MSc and PhD in Systems Biology from Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) in 2000 and 2004, respectively. His areas of specialization are systems biotechnology, drug and disease modeling and control, and supply chain optimization. He works in the area of Systems Biotechnology which is one of the areas the Department is exploring for interactions with BTI. Dong-Yup’s joint appointment further cements the relationship between the two institutions and provides a mechanism for our ChemBioSys Group to expand its activities.
Dr. Jiang Jianwen joined us as Assistant Professor on 31 October 2005. He obtained his BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science & Technology in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He spent about 7 years in postdoctoral positions in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at University of Southern Carolina, and Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Delaware. His research interests include applied thermodynamics, molecular simulations, quantum chemical computations. His appointment fulfills our need for a thermodynamicist with a statistical mechanics bent to complement our experimentalists in adsorptive separations, polymer solutions, nanostructured materials and surface science.
Dr. Liu Bin came on board as Assistant Professor on 2 November 2005. She obtained her BSc and MSc in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 1995 and 1998 respectively, and PhD in Chemistry from NUS in 2001. Prior to her current appointment, she was an Assistant Researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara. She specializes in biomaterials, conducting polymers, chemosensors and biosensors. Her work focuses on the synthesis and use of conjugated water-soluble polymers with potential applications in optoelectronic devices and as biosensors.
Dr. LI Zhi joined us as an Associate Professor in January 2006. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) at Zurich, where he was a Group Leader at the Institute of Biotechnology. He obtained his BS in Chemistry and MEng in Chemical Processing from Nanjing University, China, and PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria. After his PhD, he took up research appointments with the University of Vienna and the University of Oslo before joining ETH Zurich. He specializes in enantioselective syntheses via biocatalysis, bioprocess development, microbial and synthetic polymers as biomaterials, and protein engineering & biochemistry. With his considerable experience at ETH, he will be one of the drivers of our efforts in biomolecular engineering.
Dr. Rudiyanto GUNAWAN joined us in July 2006 as an Assistant Professor. Rudi earned his BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1998) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2003), respectively. Prior to joining NUS, he held a post-doctoral position at the University of California Santa Barbara for three years. His research interests are in the area of control systems theory with applications in microelectronics manufacture, particulate processes, and more recently in systemsbiology. His current work focuses on systems approaches in the reverse engineering and analysis of biological systems and the dynamics of cell population, specifically in apoptosis and bacterial infection. He joins our Chemical & BioSystems Engineering research group, a major initiative in the Department.
Dr. Saif A KHAN joined us as an Assistant Professor in August 2006. He received his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology at the University of Mumbai, India in 2001, and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. His research at MIT focused on microfluidic approaches for synthesis and surface-engineering of colloidal particles with size and structure-based tuning of optical and chemical properties. He current research activities include microfluidics-enabled study of nucleation and growth of nanostructures, synthesis of multi-layered core-shell colloids with tunable optical properties, field-assisted assembly of functional structures. Dr. Khan will also participate in the Singapore-MIT Alliance Program on Chemical & Pharmaceutical Engineering led by our Department.
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